The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-25

clule tho engine and machinery for one of
TIE new guauo factories to be erected in
Senoia public ginnery at Pickett station,
several ginning outfits in different portions
OF this and adjoining counties, and va
riety of other work The shops are running
ON full time now and with a full force of
hands.
Tho city fathers OF Darien exonerated Or.
j. a. Hugar, Health Officer Of the port, for
| allowing the master Of the Norwegian bark
Regina TO come TO the city, soon after the
ARRIVAL of tn" vessel at quarantine station.
| 1t appears that the Health Officer had no
rules to 60 by and was not to blame for
anything. The new rules and regulations
suggested by the Brunswick conference
| have been adopted and the Health Officer
in the future will strongly enforce them.
The Gibson Enterprise says Some North
ern papers want Henry Grady for Vice
President, and the Augusta Gazette wants
| Gov. Gordon. The right man for the place
will be found when the SAVANNAH MORN
ING NEWS settles on one. That grand old
journal Is always right, and that without
much fuss In the meantime the public can
wait untilevery part of the countryis heard
from, and then know the most fitting can
didate for the place by what the NEWS says.
Two Lee county boys went fishing on
| Wednesday last. After fishing a long Time
without success they found that all the bait
| they had was one worm. The one who had
grown tired of fishing agreed to let the
| other have the bait If he would give him
half he caught; but when large catfish
was brought to land No 2 refused to divide
and terrific fight ensued. While they were
! yet in tho throes of mortal combat hungry
hog came up and Selling the disputed prop
erty, made off with it.
The region north and west of Boston was
visited by terrific wind and hail storm on
Monday night. The blades of fodder We're
| torn into strings. The cotton fields look as
| If q threshing machine had passed through
them. Great damage was done on the
places of d. 7. Forrest, A. Q. Moody, N. r.
| Spengler, II. Stacy, II. +. Slappy, NJ l..
| Cook, Mrs Whaley and great many others
| from which your correspondent has received
no reports. The hail broke twenty-five
| lights in the dwelling of NJ. L. Cook.
A few days ago w. L. Bib, of Thomas
county presented S. j. Cassels, OF Thomasville,
with a very large melon, the name or varie-
| ty of which was not known. In color it was
deep green and oblong in shape The meat
| was very red sweet and crisp. The seeds
were black Besides being a good melon
| for so large variety, its chief merit seems
to be its prolificness The vine from which
this was taken contained sixteen well ma
tured and large melons with quite number
of small ones. Mr.. Bib is saving all the
| seed, as he considers this new variety val
liable acquisition to, if not a decided i'm
provement upon the other varieties grown
| in that section.
One Of the most remarkable features in hui
man nature is observed in the Young family,
of the Salem neighborhood in Oglethorpe.
| Mr.. William Young, who lives near Salem, a
| carpenter by trade, was born with the
middle and ring finger of his right hand to-
| gether The joints are perfect, and he finds
| no Inconvenience from the other hand. The
remarkable part is that his little baby was
| born with the same two fingers grown to-
| gether. Mr. Young has nine brothers, who
have natural fingers His father, nor his
| fathers brothers had no such freak of ma
ture, yet their only sister has the identical
| fingers on the same hand grown together.
His grandfather had three fingers on each
| hand, and three toes of each foot grown to-
| gether, and as far back as he can trace the
| same freak is apparent, but it never devel-
| oped on but one in each family.
At Alapaha last Monday night, after a
| day spent by mercury at 1907, the clouds
| gathered and for two hours no grander cleo
| trio display was ever witnessed there The
main cloud started in the northeast, and as
| it advanced it spread, flashing great sheets
| of electricity right and left, front and rear,
till it encompassed nearly the whole horizon
| The centre of this cloud seemed to pass di-
rectly over Alapaha, and as it passed
| peal after peal Of thunder, in quick
succession, shook the earth and
| caused houses TO tremble as if from an
earthquake visitation. The cloud passed to
the Southwest, continuing the electric dis
| play The flashes were continuous and very
| brilliant. After the storm had gone too far
! for the thunder to be heard an occasional
stream of fire would shoot back nearly over
| the town, then break into numerous frag-
ments, running in every direction, and pre-
senting "A sight never to be forgotten. A
heavy rain fell during the time.
Quitman Free Press: This week winds
up the watermelon business in this section as
far as shipping is concerned. In our last
issue we gave the number of cars shipped
| from Quitman at 800 and from Dixie 1l9.
Only four cars was shipped from Quitman
this week and twelve from Dixie, making
total of 635 car loads shipped from the two
places during the season Counting the
Brooks county melons shipped from
Ousley, the exact number of which we
have as yet been unable to ascertain it
may be safely estimated that 615 car loads
| of melons have gone out from Brooks county
during the season of 1887. Some of these
sold for over $500 a car, some for $50, some
some for nothing. Estimating that they
sold for an average of so per car and Il
gives it a grand total of S47, 250 scattered
throughout the county by this one crop
This has been good year on melons and
nearly everybody who has handled them has
made money.